A Dictionary of SimilesLittle, Brown, 1924 - 578 pages This volume is the first attempt to collect the best similes from English, as well as from all other literatures. |
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... 1903 : 180 , 288 , 302 , 423 DUKE , RICHARD , 1658-1711 : 152 , 191 , 241 , 296 , 381 , 442 DUMAS , PÈRE , 1802-1870 : 5 , 20 , 37 , 40 , 42 , 50 , 58 , 66 , 71 , 81 , 82 , 92 , 95 , 103 , 104 , 107 , 117 , 137 , 143 ,
... 1903 : 180 , 288 , 302 , 423 DUKE , RICHARD , 1658-1711 : 152 , 191 , 241 , 296 , 381 , 442 DUMAS , PÈRE , 1802-1870 : 5 , 20 , 37 , 40 , 42 , 50 , 58 , 66 , 71 , 81 , 82 , 92 , 95 , 103 , 104 , 107 , 117 , 137 , 143 ,
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... PÈRE . Agitated . Agitated with delight like a waving sea . ARABIAN NIGHTS . Aglow . Aglow , like fruit when it colors . WILLIAM CANTON . Thy lips are aglow SWINBURNE . As a lover's that kindle with kissing . - Agony . Blind agony ...
... PÈRE . Agitated . Agitated with delight like a waving sea . ARABIAN NIGHTS . Aglow . Aglow , like fruit when it colors . WILLIAM CANTON . Thy lips are aglow SWINBURNE . As a lover's that kindle with kissing . - Agony . Blind agony ...
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... PÈRE . Black as night when the tempests pass.-F. W. FABER . Black as starless night . FLETCHER . - PHINEAS Black as a cassock . SAMUEL FOOTE . - - Black as the pit . W. E. HENLEY . Blacker than a raven in a coal mine . - O. HENRY ...
... PÈRE . Black as night when the tempests pass.-F. W. FABER . Black as starless night . FLETCHER . - PHINEAS Black as a cassock . SAMUEL FOOTE . - - Black as the pit . W. E. HENLEY . Blacker than a raven in a coal mine . - O. HENRY ...
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... PÈRE . Brilliant ΗΥΜΝ . as altar fires.- VEDIC Brilliant as rain - drops , when the west- ern sun Sees his own miniature of beams in each . -- MONTGOMERY . Brilliant as stars . - OUIDA . Brilliant , like transparent plates of mother ...
... PÈRE . Brilliant ΗΥΜΝ . as altar fires.- VEDIC Brilliant as rain - drops , when the west- ern sun Sees his own miniature of beams in each . -- MONTGOMERY . Brilliant as stars . - OUIDA . Brilliant , like transparent plates of mother ...
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... PÈRE . Buried like a cauliflower . - WASH- INGTON IRVING . Busy as a humming bird with two tails . ---- - IBID . Busy as a one - armed paperhanger with the hives . - IBID . a pigeon at a shooting - IBID . Busy as match . Busy as ...
... PÈRE . Buried like a cauliflower . - WASH- INGTON IRVING . Busy as a humming bird with two tails . ---- - IBID . Busy as a one - armed paperhanger with the hives . - IBID . a pigeon at a shooting - IBID . Busy as match . Busy as ...
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ANON ARTHUR BAER BALZAC BAYARD TAYLOR beauty bird Black blush breath Bright BUCHANAN READ BULWER-LYTTON BURNE BYRON C. G. ROSSETTI Calm CARLYLE CHARLES READE cheeks cloud Cold continued D. G. ROSSETTI dark dead DICKENS doth dream DRYDEN DUMAS E. B. BROWNING ELIZA COOK eyes face Fade Fair fire flame FLETCHER flower Fresh GEORGE ELIOT GEORGE MEREDITH GERALD MASSEY gleam glow heart heaven HOOD HUGO IBID JOHN JOSEPH CONRAD JOSH BILLINGS KEATS KIPLING leaf light lips LONGFELLOW LYLY moon morning night O. W. HOLMES o'er OLD TESTAMENT OUIDA P. J. BAILEY Pale PÈRE PROVERB Pure R. D. BLACKMORE rain RICHARD ROBERT BROWNING ROBERT BURTON rose shadow SHAKE SHAKESPEARE SHELLEY Shine Silent similes sleep smile snow Soft soul SOUTHEY spring stars storm summer Sweet Swift SWINBURNE TENNYSON Thick THOMAS MOORE tree Trembling Vanished voice wave White WHITTIER wild WILLIAM wind WORDSWORTH